True Jinchuriki

The Demon of the Bloody Mist

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto; if I did then there would be many more scenes where Sasuke's masculinity would be questioned.

The pairings poll is officially still accepting votes, but things have not really changed since the last update. Hinata is the number one girl and Yugito is second, Naruto will be very popular with the ladies though it isn't a true harem.

Haku is a guy, a feminine guy.

Has a father and son style relationship with Zabuza

The third will not die.

Saved by somebody, I didn't get enough reviews for this one so I'll decide on my own.

Sasuke will get the seal.

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Naruto grinned evilly, the information he had just been given matched what he had been told before he left.

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"Naruto, may I speak with you before you go." The old Hokage asked quietly.

"Sure oyaji, what's that problem?"

"It's not my idea, but the council has voted to give you some…more interesting missions."

"So they want me to get stuck in too deep and get myself killed."

"Unfortunately that appears to be the case."

"It was to be expected, if I die on a mission they can both get rid of me and increase the pay that the village gets for the mission by saying it was more dangerous than what they were told."

"You seam to have a firm grasp on the concept."

"So what's the mission?"

"There is a man in the wave country, his name is Gatoh. Gatoh is buying up all the export and import businesses in the wave. Our customers are a group of shipping companies who are being driven out of business by his unethical business practices. Your mission is to eliminate this man, should you choose to accept it." The last part was said with an emphasis to suggest he didn't think that Naruto should accept it.

"If I don't accept a mission it will just give the council more reason to prosecute me when exam time comes around."

"You think you will be nominated for the exams?"

"If I know Kakashi-sensei, we will be. Also the council will want their precious Uchiha to be in the exams as soon as possible so they can show him off. I will accept the mission."

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The Genin team was now in wave country, the sun was high and a cool wind caressed their faces keeping them cool on this hot summer day.

Just as the group was walking towards Tazuna's house, Naruto suddenly tossed a kunai into the bushes in front of them.

"Gah! Naruto watch where you throw those things. You could have hurt someone!"

"Sumimasen, Sakura-san I thought I saw something in the bushes."

"Congratulations dobe. You caught the deadly killer rabbit."

While Naruto made a big show of apologizing to the rabbit, Kakashi's brain was running overtime. Something wasn't right. 'That rabbit has white fur, they only have white fur during the winter when days are short, and therefore it was raised indoors. Naruto doesn't behave like that, ever, and since when does Naruto apologize to Sakura. If Naruto thought he saw something in the bushes, then he saw something in the bushes and it wasn't a rabbit…OH SHIT'

"EVERYONE DOWN!"

The entire group ducked just as a massive sword flew over their heads and got lodged in a tree, just as the sword stopped moving a man appeared on the blade.

"Ah, Sharingan Kakashi, the famous Copy Ninja of Konohagakure no Sato, What are the chances of meeting you here. "

"Momochi Zabuza, the demon of the bloody mist, a class Nuke-nin from Kirigakure no Sato I should have expected as much. Everyone stand back, this one is out of your league."

"Well then, how about you hand over the bridge builder and in exchange I won't kill you."

"Gomen, I can't allow that." Naruto calmly stepped forward to stand near Kakashi.

"Oh, how cute, the little Genin thinks he can play with the big-boys."

"Well your head sure is big."

There was a moment of silence; a Genin had just insulted the infamous Zabuza.

"You did it now Gaki."

"My name is not Gaki, its Shinkukaen no Naruto."

(A/N: please note that technically "Shinkukaen no Naruto, can be translated as ether: Naruto of the crimson flame or maelstrom of crimson flames.)

"Aren't you a little bit small for giving yourself fancy titles?"

"…no, my actual name is Naruto. And it's never too early to make a name for yourself."

"Brave words for a Genin."

"I'm more than just a Genin." With that Naruto lightly loosened his Kodachi in its sheath.

"Naruto, I'll take care of this, you protect Tazuna-san."

"Fine, but if you get in too deep, I don't have to follow your orders." Naruto whispered to Kakashi in a voice that was too quiet to be overheard.

Zabuza couldn't hear what was said, but he could see by Kakashi's reaction that the jonin had some respect for the kid. 'Could there really be more to this kid than meats the eye?' he wondered.

The battle began.

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Kakashi was trapped in a sphere of water and there was a Zabuza clone standing between the Genin and the lake where their sensei was trapped.

"Take the bridge builder and run!" Kakashi yelled from his prison.

"Kakashi-sensei," Naruto started, "do you remember what I said?"

Everyone's attention switched to Naruto for a second.

"I'd call this over your head." With those words Naruto was gone.

In the blink of an eye he had his sword drawn and he was behind the clone. Zabuza saw two things in that one moment; one Naruto's Kodachi had a bright red colored blade, and two he had sliced the water clone in half with one swing.

"This is no mere Genin," was all he had time to say before the boy vanished and reappeared directly behind him.

This was a battle of swordsmanship like no other. Zabuza jumped out of the way of the attack but had to release the water sphere to do it. Naruto's sword while only two feet in length was fast and he had chakra running through it to make the blade longer.

Zabuza was a better swordsman, he could tell that the boy had no proper training, yet he was forced to go on the defensive from the sheer ferocity and power of Naruto's attack.

To the two Genin and the bridge builder, their actions were just a blur, but to Kakashi's Sharingan this was a deadly dance of steal.

Naruto's strikes weren't graceful, they weren't precise but they were fast and strong. Zabuza had at first hoped that he could wait for the boy to tire out but he was surprised to see that his opponent appeared to have nearly endless stamina.

Naruto swung high, Zabuza blocked and with a fluid motion brought his sword into a middle height slash, but Naruto brought his sword to block at the last moment and proceeded to kick Zabuza in the face.

Zabuza did a back flip and dived underwater, then used the Suiton: Daibakufu no Jutsu (Great Waterfall Technique)Naruto countered with, gokakyu no jutsu (great fireball technique) normally a fire technique cant counter a water element technique but the shear amount of chakra behind this one strike was enough to cancel attack.

By the time the steam cleared, Naruto was nowhere to be seen.

Zabuza just barely spun around in time to catch a bone-breackingly strong punch on the flat of his sword.

He quickly reversed the swing and gave his attacker a slash across the chest.

Naruto skidded back and stopped on the water. He gathered his chakra in his blade and continued his attack with even greater ferocity.

Zabuza was tiring, he could tell he had hit his opponent many times without being injured but the exhaustion was beginning to get to him and his arms hurt from blocking his opponent's inhumanly strong attacks.

Naruto focused as hard as he could on this fight but his opponent was strong, he couldn't keep using its power all the time that would be a sign of weakness. He was already low jonin level at fighting power but his opponent was former ANBU, he was getting tired, and his entire upper body was covered in minor scratches. Minor for him meaning they weren't quite reaching the bone.

On the shore Kakashi stared in horror at his student's level of power, he could tell he wasn't even close to Zabuza's skill but he was holding a stalemate with power and stamina alone. "Minato-sensei you would be proud." He muttered quietly.

Naruto knew he was running out of time, some time soon one of those attacks would be to serous to ignore. He made his decision.

Naruto charged, Zabuza countered, the swords met with an explosion of sparks.

Naruto's overhead chop was blocked but barely. Just then the Zabuza who had blocked turned into water and another Zabuza came out of the mist and struck a lethal blow.

Naruto started to fall from the blow across his back, from his left hip to his right shoulder. However, just as he fell, Naruto spun around and lashed out with his sword, the chakra blade had gone form light blue to angry crackling, crimson.

Zabuza was just barley able to block but the incredible power released when the blade destabilized threw him backwards towards the forest. He was sore, tired and nearly out of chakra but he knew he had to finish this, just as he rose from the ground where he fell; he was struck with a massive wave. The blow was strong enough to shatter his collar bone and three ribs.

Just as Kakashi was about to finish the downed Nuke-Nin he was beaten to the pinch, three senbon needles appeared in Zabuza's neck and he went limp.

"Thank you for wearing him down for me." The masked hunter said calmly before disappearing into the mist.

Kakashi had only one thing on his mind, he had seen Zabuza's last attack and he could only think. 'I can't lose him too!' as he ran to his fallen student.

He needed not have worried though, just as he got to the shore, he saw Naruto stumbling and leaning against a tree with his right hand, the sword was back in it's sheath.

He could hear Sakura gasp as Naruto ripped the nearly shredded shirt form his body.

The marks from the many slashes on his body were already nearly gone; the cut on his chest was completely healed leaving behind only a rapidly fading pink line.

Damn that hurt, Naruto muttered just before collapsing from exhaustion and pain.

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Naruto awakened somewhat unpleasantly, there was a boy yelling wildly about how they were all going to die and how Gatoh was unbeatable.

"Shut the hell up!" he yelled loudly as he got to his feet and noticed all the bandages covering his upper body. He ripped of the bandages and stretched.

He then noticed the looks of shock visible on the faces of the people in the room.

It was most likely dinner time judging from the dishes on the table. He calmly looked around for his pack and pulled out a fresh shirt with the sleeves ripped off. He pulled the shirt over his head as he walked towards the table. "You guys look like you've seen a ghost."

"How the hell is that possible! Just yesterday you had tons of deep gashes and a deadly slash across your back! There is no way you should be fully healed so fast!" Sakura screeched in shock.

"If some tiny scratches like those were enough to nock me out for long, I would have died at the age of two." Was his answer.

The group looked at him shocked until Kakashi-sensei limped over to him and calmly explained. "Naruto's was never well liked in the village; he was quite poorly treated by the villagers and ninja alike."

"I remember my mother telling me to stay away from him when we were little but I don't remember him every getting that badly hurt." Sakura argued.

"In at the academy I was watched by ANBU to make certain that no one broke the fourth's law and told me or any of my classmates the village secret. It's kind of funny because I figured out the secret at the age of five, I was kind of scared at first but I later decided that there was no point crying about it and used it to become stronger."

"What secret?"

"That is something that is illegal to tell anyone who doesn't already know, Sakura-san." Kakashi interrupted.

"If it's some secret training method or technique then it would make sense to teach us since we are supposed to be a team." Sasuke observed.

"No, it is something much more secret and it wouldn't be of any help in making you stronger," Kakashi answered.

"It is not something you can learn, it is simply a secret." Naruto said.

"But then how did it make you stronger,"

"It didn't, but after I learned it I was able to focus harder on my training, because I knew why the entire village wanted me dead."

"The entire village?"

"Yes, well at least everyone over fifteen."

"That's ridiculous, why would some village secret make everyone hate you?"

"Because they are fools, who blame me for the deaths of the fourth Hokage and everyone else who died fighting the Kyuubi no Kitsune."

Through all this Inari just stood in silence and watched with wide eyes.

"How could that be, you weren't even born yet!"

"Actually I was born five minutes before the Fox was defeated."

"That's still no reason to hate you, so what aren't you telling us? Dobe"

"Demon's can't be killed, and the nine tails was harder to kill then the rest, he had endless amounts of chakra and his body healed even the worst blows in mere moments."

As he said this Sasuke's eyes grew wide, "like the way you healed a lethal blow overnight?"

"That is part of it; let's just say that the only way to stop the demon was to seal its power in a vessel." Naruto said quietly as he walked away.

"Naruto is not the demon if that is what you are thinking, though some of the villagers think he is." Kakashi sighed, "We lost many of our best ninja to the demon, and Naruto-san lost much more than any other, he lost his family and any chance he had of getting acceptance."

The assembled group looked in the direction of the front door where Naruto had left.

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Sasuke was furious, Kakashi had assigned a chakra control exercise which Sakura had performed on the first try, and Naruto had yet to return, almost five days since he had woken up.

How was it that he, an Uchiha, and the top of his class was doing worse than anyone else on his team.

As Kakashi watched his prized pupil fail miserably at this simple exercise, he thought back to Naruto, that boy had withstood more hardship than any human should and it wasn't over yet. Just as he pondered the Naruto conundrum he heard a voice behind him.

"Was he really treated that badly?"

"Inari, you should be at home, your mother will worry."

"If he is hated so much then why does he still bother living?" the boy continued as if the one-eyed jonin hadn't spoken.

"Not a day goes by that I don't wonder that my self."

"Why should he bother, life is meaningless, in the end there are just two kinds of people in this world the strong and the week, so why bother living." He yelled

"Because I had no other choice." Said a voice from behind the boy, "I tried to kill myself many times, but every time I would lose consciousness and wakeup several hours latter covered in my own blood but completely healed."

"You seem to have stopped trying, if you learned to fight so well."

"Yeah, I guess I realized, if I die then the sacrifice my father made would be meaningless, and to make things worse I wouldn't be able to complete my dream." Naruto said with a sad smile, "but worst of all, those worthless bastards in the council might actually be happy for a change, and can't allow that."

"The council consists primarily of fools."

"Yes, and luckily they are to cowardly to try and have my assassinated, or I might have to kill a bunch of valuable ninja."

"Sometimes you scare me."

"Kakashi-sensei, I have a secondary mission here, so don't be to concerned if I leave in a couple days without telling you," Naruto said thoughtfully.

"May I ask what it is?"

"No, but lets just say that some shipping companies got together to get rid of a common foe."

"Oh? Before you go, are you going to train?"

"What are we learning?"

"Tree climbing."

"Done that."

"Oh, what about water walking?"

"At the age of eight. I also mastered leaf cutting."

"THAT'S NATURE MANIPULATION!"

"Yeah."

"Nature manipulation is Jonin level!"

"So?"

"You really are a monster."

"No, I'm it's jailor."

With those words Naruto walked away.

Sasuke stared at Naruto's retreating back from where he fell. He was certain he saw Naruto glance his way before walking straight up a tree and jumping off into the distance.

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So what do you think, I had to scrap my first draft of the dinner scene because it gave too much information, and was too angst filled.

Poll

Who should fight who in the exams?

Please suggest new jutsu for Naruto to use.

Keep voting for couples

Hinata is currently in the lead by a lot

And the harem vote has won, but I've never written a harem story so… I'm just making Naruto popular with the ladies, latter

Also there will be very little romance until after the time skip.

THEY ARE FREEKING TWELVE YEAR OLDS!

PS: I'm looking for a beta, but I need one with good grammar.